Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-14
BURIED.
THE EARTH RECEIVES ITS OWN.
Last Chapter Of the Awful Hsymarket
Tragedy.
THE TALE TOLD, THE BOOK CLOSED.
Nina Van ZandPs Brave LOOk-Bearing Her
Sorrow Firmly---The Funeral
Procession.
PERFORMANCE OF The LAST RITES.
THE TALE TOLD, THE BOOK CLOSED.
PERFORMANCE OF The LAST RITES.
Their Mortal Remains Swallowed Up in the
Grave---LOwsred to ThsirRsSting Place
With Threats and CurssS---Im-
prsssive Scenes at Wsld-
helm Cemetery.

CHICAGO, November 13.-Flitting mile
after mile, in gloom, close down to the
cold, Hat earth, FIVE unseen soulless fig
ures, fleeing in death, as from the one
great Being for whom alone there can be
no law, found a hiding place tonight in
the darkness, at the most desolate spot on
the prairie's wide expanse. The five
CHASTITY figures were the symbols Of at
tempted destruction to law-they were
the five dead Anarchists, Spies, Parsons,
Fischer, Eugel and Lingg. Prob
ably half a million people in the
city OF their terrible crime, 81 ~ the last
public preparations for the final flight to
the tomb. Scarcely more than half the
number expected-seyen thousand men
and two hundred and fifty women-aided
in the city by forming in procession behind
them. Ten thousand people were present
in the barest, emptiest graveyard adjacent
to Chicago when the cOrpses at last were
hidden. Muttered curses and bitter muir
murs and a cry Throttle the law" accom-
panied the parting words spoken over the
five lifeleSs bodies.
1t was almost to a second the exact time
that forty-eight hours before the scaffold
drop fell with August Spies and his COM
rades that to-day the blacklist OF bearses
drew up at the door of his relatives. About
1000 persons, most of them neighbors of
Spies, were cOngregated on the street and
sidewalks of the block in which Spies liv-
ed, when the time for departure arrived.
As at the other houses where the Anarch-
lists bodies lay, constant stream of
mOuruers or curious sightseers had been
seen since almost daylight pouring through
the buildings aud viewing the livid re-
mains or gazing at the weeping relatives.
Supported on Capt Blacks arm and with
her head pillowed on his shoul-
der, was a cliuging gjrIish figure,
clad IN Grape from head to feet,
a PICTURE OF UTTER WOE.
The face WAS completely veiled from sight.
Instantly the whisper was heard on every
side There she is" There is Nina
Van Xlndt. "It'S Spies wife" 1t was
not until the coffin had been placed in the
hearSe, the immediate mOurners had en-
tered carriages, and five hundred blue
badged turner's had formed into ranks
ahead, that the crowd discovered its mis-
take. Calmly seated in the first carriage,
without one sign Of mourning in
her apparel or q single trace
of griet in her pale, set face
| The cOunteDance was unmiStakably that
OF Spies youthful bride, but it had sud-
denly acquired dignity and matureness
| that gave an unlocked for, but far from
/ repellant aspect to one of her years. Aside
| from this expression, the shapely features
wore a peculiar yellOwish pallOr. She
was apparelled in a well-wGru fur-trim-
med wrap of dark wine cOlOred or purple
velvet, a very simple made dress of black
| silk, and q small new brown feathered
bonnet to match the wrap
While the crowds were recovering from
! their surprise at Miss Van Zandt'S de-
meanor and dress, the black clad girl who
accompanied Capt. Black into the same
carriage with Spies pseudo wife, threw
back her veil and disclosed the tear-staiued
features of the dead mans sister, Gretchen.
Alongside of Miss Van Zandt, and listen
ing eagerly at times to her words Of glori-
ficatiOn of Spies, was the Anarchists aged
mother. There were hard lines in her
face, but she seemed 10 have command of
her grief At this moment the mourntul
music of dirge away TO the front was
heard, and the cortege was on its way to
the grave. Down Milwaukee avenue, be-
tween such multitudes, on either side, as
never before gathered on those walks, the
procession
MARCHED SLOWLY AND SOLEMNLY.
Il took up with somewhat similar
scenes the body of Fischer and Parsons
and afterwards those of Lingg and Engel.
With each there was great accession to
the eOrtege, and rs 1t proceeded the masses
of OnlOokers became still more dense. A
line OF march, if detected north as much
as it was afterward turned south, would
have led almost into the location of the
Anarchist gallows, but at the corner Of
ID PLANES street there was n quick
change of front, and the pro-
cessiOn seemed headed direct for
the Haymarket. 1t was just las
when the head of the line reached the cor
ner of Lake and Desplaines streets, on the
the corner of which is the saloon and hall
of Charles Zepf, the Anarchist. Two hun
dred feet south was the alley from which
the kissing and fatal bomb was hurled
into the ranks of the police. At the hour
hA Eraf limo of nOnlH hs
seen crossing Desplaiues street via
duct. There was no advance guard
Of police. Chief Marshal Charles
Hepp, with two aides, led the way.
They wore no red, but simple black clothes
and Grape on their arms. Then came a
brilliantly dressed corps Of musicians
dressed in the colors of the German army,
and on their heads spiked helmets. As
this band passed ZeppSs Hall, which was
open and filled with drinking men, it
struck up dirge, as did in fact every other
band in the procession, and there were
at least fifteen Of them. Follow
ing the first corpse Of musicians
walked the Defense Committee. George
A. Sehilling led the committee, and
carried in his hands floral tribute. Fol-
lowing them marched eight abreast nearly
two hundred members oftbe Aurora Turn
yeirin, c! which August Spies was a men,
Der. Following were four hundred mem
bers of Won Wert's Turner Society, one
hundred of the FortSchritt branch. The
hearse Of August Spies came next. There
were
NO NoDDING BLACK PLUaEs
on it. but the top was 50 covered with
floral tributes that nothing else could be
seen. Inside was the richly covered
casket Standing ont in bold relief
amongst the black brosdeloth of the coffin
was q great sash Of red silk. Then
another band wheeled into Lake
streek, playing . dirge. It was in
front of maay hundred members OF
the Central Labor Union. Behind them
,-alh "A kha hlaek horses uhich drew the